No Louisiana students enrolled under controversial course provider

12:33 PM,
Jun. 17, 2013

Superintendent of Education John White said a new scaled-down Course Choice program has no enrollees.

Written by

Mike Hasten
mhasten@gannett.com

BATON ROUGE - A controversial alternative course provider that promised free computers and got hundreds of students to sign up for classes has no one enrolled under a new scaled-down Course Choice program, says Superintendent of Education John White.

FastPath, a Texas company, had about 80 percent of the enrollment when Course Choice was first set up and was to be funded through the public school funding formula.

But after the Louisiana Supreme Court said that it was unconstitutional to use that funding mechanism for vouchers and Course Choice, the Department of Education threw out of all ...